Fei-Fei Li, a computer scientist at Stanford and founder of the startup known as the “Godmother of AI,” said ahead of next week’s AI Action Summit in Paris, “3rd place for the Future of AI Policymaking.” We have outlined the following basic principles.
First, Li said that policies should be based on “science, not science fiction.” In other words, policymakers should focus on the current reality of AI, not on the epic future scenario, whether it’s utopia or apocalypse.
In particular, Li said it is important for policymakers to understand that chatbots and copilot programs are “not in a form of intelligence with intention, free will, and consciousness,” so they said, ” You can avoid distracting scenarios of distraction and instead focus on “critical issues.”
Second, she argued that policies should be “practical, not ideological.” That means that it should be written to “encourage innovation while minimizing unintended consequences.”
Finally, Li said these policies need to empower “the entire AI ecosystem, including the open source community and academia.”
“Open access to AI models and calculators is essential for progress,” she said. “Limiting that creates barriers and slow innovation, especially for academic institutions and researchers who have fewer resources than their private sector counterparts.”